Welcome to the Flurry Rogue Endgame Build Guide! This build is a mobile, melee oriented take of the class that's an excellent starter and beginner friendly. Flurry Rogue is a fast hitting melee skill that we can spam often while moving around the battlefield effortlessly. This build is great for all around play in all types of content and easy to use due to its high sustain, making this build quite tough, more-so than the other Rogue builds.
Flurry only hits enemies in front of you, but once you get the Aspect of Encircling Blades, you're able to deal damage in a 360° circle, making the positioning requirements a lot more forgiving and increasing clear speed.
Being a melee build, mobility is high priority, and Flurry Rogue has it all with Dash and many other stats to boost movement speed for incredible nimbleness.
In this guide we teach you all you need to know to be successful with the Flurry Rogue in Diablo 4. Let's get started!
This build guide assumes you have a Level 50 Character and finished the Campaign. Level up with our Flurry Leveling Guide. If you are looking for a different Rogue playstyle, check out all of our Rogue Guides.
Season 5 - Infernal Hordes
In Season 5, the Season Theme brings your hero back into the bowels of Hell, in the Infernal Hordes endgame activity. You're first introduced to Hellbreach Dungeons, miniature Horde-like micro-dungeons that teach you the new mechanics and rewards systems. As you slay more powerful Demons and Bosses, you're rewarded with the new Reputation progression that comes with amazing rewards. These include Crafting Materials, unlocking Season's Journey tiers and even the coveted Resplendent Spark, needed to craft a mythic unique.
Follow the seasonal questline until you unlock the Reputation system, check which rewards suit you most and then follow your regular leveling path. To learn more, check out our full Season 5 guide for more information.
Skill Tree & Gameplay
- Flurry is our main ability. It's a simple skill that hits 4 times per use in a cone in front of you. With Aspect of Encircling Blades, it becomes a 360° AoE.
- Dash gives you incredible mobility to fly across the battlefield.
- Smoke Grenade gives us quite a bit of utility from more damage to disabling enemies so that they cannot attack.
- Rain of Arrows gives us an easy way to proc Tricks of the Trade legendary node and a knockdown for safety that you can use often with the Preparation specialization, which also triggers a massive multiplier from the No Witness legendary node on the paragon board.
- Shadow Step allows us to break out of crowd control and a way to close in the gap with extra mobility.
- Caltrops is used for crowd control, damage buff and a reliable way to freeze enemies.
Passives
- Momentum is the Key Passive of choice for additional damage, damage reduction and resource cost reduction. The latter is necessary to be able to spam Flurry continuously
Gameplay
The Flurry Rogue Endgame Build is a full melee playstyle. To deal the most damage, you need to dive into the middle of a pack and start your rotations immediately. Good news is this build is pretty tough, so surviving the dive won't be difficult and you can setup your damage with ease.
- Use Dash and Shadow Step to engage enemies.
- Use Rain of Arrows to proc several buffs and keep the enemies off guard.
- Plant Caltrops and Smoke Grenade for tougher situations like against elites and bosses. Caltrops proc Mired Sharpshooter's, which allows to proc the Marksman part of the Tricks of the Trade legendary node.
- Flurry is our main attack. All of the steps above are to build up Flurry to become a monster of a Core Skill. Once we obtain the Aspect of Encircling Blades, we get a nice 360 area of effect to complement the skill. Make sure to apply all of the above before using Flurry for maximum effect. Spam Flurry as often as you can!
Rogue Specialization
Rogues choose one out of three special passives that enhance their playstyle. Flurry can be played with any of the specializations, but for this setup we're choosing Preparation for some ultimate skill benefits! This Specialization allows you to have a much higher uptime on an Ultimate skill while giving you additional damage reduction.
Learn more details and how to unlock this system in our full Rogue Specialization Guide.
Resource & Cooldown Management
Resource management is a big deal in this setup as we're attempting to spam Flurry as often as possible. You want stats like energy pert second on boots and resource cost reduction on your weapon. Passives like Innervation, Advanced Flurry and Momentum help immensely. Top it off eventually with a Ring of Starless Skies and you have energy for days.
As for cooldown, this build doesn't rely heavily on it. Preparation handles the things you want cooldown for just fine. Due to the heavy investments in imbue stats, it is critical that you're always using an Imbue before firing Flurry, otherwise your damage and utility falls off a bit.
Mobility
Feel free to use Dash whenever necessary to go faster. For speed farming, Enhanced Flurry allows you to teleport to enemies when casting this skill, making this build insanely mobile.
Paragon Board
Carefully check your Paragon Boards to ensure correct board rotation. Glyphs go from a radius of 3 to 4 when they reach level 15!
Level the Paragon Board by scrolling. Each step optimizes progression.
Glyphs
We need to level up our Glyphs to increase their power and activate their Additional Bonus with surrounding nodes. Glyphs have a radius of 3 by default, this increases to 4 at Glyph level 15. Complete Nightmare Dungeons to obtain Glyph experience.
Note that there are some Glyph position swaps and a few adjustments to surrounding Paragon nodes once they reach level 15. See the last two steps in the Paragon progression above for details. The setup displayed by default is the final version of the build.
Glyph Leveling Priorities
Level 15
- Fluidity
- Canny
- Control
- Combat
- Ambush
- Chip
Level 21
- Fluidity
- Canny
- Control
- Combat
- Ambush
- Chip
There are a total of 225 Paragon Points. Starting with level 50 you gain 4 Paragon Points per level, including 20 from Renown, and 4 from Altars of Lilith. Also check out our dedicated in-depth guides to learn more about Paragon Boards and Glyphs.
Endgame Gear & Skill Progression
When you start diving into the Endgame, you don't have all the tools available to achieve the final build versions. Let us guide you through different progression points to give you a smooth transition from our Leveling Guides to the final build version.
Progression Goals
Some of your Skill Tree choices depend on what Legendary Aspects and Unique items are available to you. While we can guarantee that everyone has access to the same Codex of Power Aspects, the exact progression is different for everyone.
- Unlock the following Aspects in your Codex of Power:
- Aspect of Encircling Blades in Forsaken Quarry (Fractured Peaks)
- Wind Striker Aspect in Shivta Ruins (Kehjistan)
- Disobedience in Halls of the Damned (Kehjistan)
- Edgemaster’s in Oldstones (Scosglen)
- Might in Dark Ravine (Dry Steppes)
- Cheat's in Luban's Rest (Scosglen)
- Aspect of the Expectant in Underrot (Scosglen)
- Corruption in Renegade's Retreat (Kehjistan)
Vengeful Aspect in Inferno (Kehjistan) - Eluding Aspect in Caldera Gate (Fractured Peaks)
- Find the following Legendary Aspects by farming in Dungeons, Nightmare Dungeons, Helltides, through the Tree of Whispers, or gambling with Obols:
- Stolen Vigor
- Umbrous Aspect
- Concussive Strikes
- Conceited
- Frostbitten
- Breakneck Bandit's
- Starlight
- Acquire the following Unique items either as a random drop or by farming specific Boss drops.
- Asheara's Khanjar
- Shroud of Khanduras
- Cowl of the Nameless
- Crown of Lucion
- If you're lucky enough to obtain the following Mythic Uniques, they're useful for the build.
- Tyrael's Might
- Ring of Starless Skies
Learn more details and how to farm Legendary Aspects and Uniques in our General Farming Guide.
Progression Steps
Inferno Hordes
Once you have completed the leveling guide, only the Codex of Power Aspects are guaranteed. With this setup, you can farm the Legendary Aspects and Unique items you need for the next progression point.
Gear
- StarlightLook forStolen Vigor Umbrous Aspect Conceited Inner Calm Breakneck Bandit's
- We take Inner Sight over Preparation here until we are able to manage our resources better to spam Flurry
Skills
- No changes to skills
In this setup, you have access to all Legendary Aspects and Temper mods, allowing you to pilot a much stronger version of this build. Additional Legendary Aspects are used to fill slots that may be replaced with Unique items later on.
Gear
- Work on getting the tempers mentioned to further progress the build.
- Acquire Asheara's Khanjar for insane attack speed.
- Acquire Cowl of the Nameless for the very strong passives it rolls.
- Acquire Shroud of Khanduras for easy Dark Shroud ranks and a nice pull with some AoE.
- Acquire Crown of Lucion for Unconditional damage that's better suited for boss fights that goes into the Mythic Unique planner later.
- Look for better rolls from Aspects that you may have used in the Codex.
Skills
- No Changes to Skills
In this setup, you have access to all Unique items, Legendary Aspects, Temper mods and Masterworking. This allows you to pilot this build at its peak efficiency. Let's take a look at the changes you need to make to implement them.
Gear
- Here we are in the realm of min-maxing what we already have. Look for Greater Affixes for key stats to continue to scale your damage.
- Make sure to reach at least 9230 Armor to be capped against all enemies in the game and boost your Resistances to 70%. The planner is designed to help you reach cap easily. There's a little bit of headroom in case you get lowballed on some rolls.
Mythic Uniques
Tyrael's Might is a god tier Mythic unique that should be slotted whenever you find one. Not only does this thing give incredible damage reduction across the board, but the insane amount of resistances it gives allows you to cap resistances as well as armor very easily.
The Ring of Starless Skies is a nice choice that helps with resource management and additional damage. You swap Cowl of the Nameless with Crown of Lucion once you obtain this Mythic Unique
Skills
No Changes to Skills
The Speedfarming variants optimize builds for easy activities like Helltides, Whispers, Nightmare Dungeons and lower Pit Tiers. Rogues are by default a fast class, so the only change here is from Advanced Flurry to Improved Flurry to essentially teleport around the battlefield as long as you have a target. This switch alone makes this build one of the best speed farm setups in the game.
Andariel's Visage can elevate any build with how powerful it is. Flurry happens to work really well with this Mythic Unique, given the crazy innate mobility. Much like other variations, you have to build around the helm as you can't just slot this into the standard build. Below is the planner, skills and paragon board for Andariel's VisageFlurry!
Gear
- Gear for this setup. Click on the planner to see the other variants.
Skills
- Skills for this setup.
Paragon Board
Hardcore Adjustments
- You can replace Dexterity and Dodge with Maximum Life on gear.
- Focus on acquiring Doombringer and include it instead of an offensive aspect.
- Take more defensive minded aspects in place of utility aspects on Chest and Pants.
Build Scaling
Read on to learn all about how to scale this build into endgame:
- Damage Per Dark Shroud: Temper this on weapon, rings, amulet and glove to scale your damage naturally.
- Dexterity: Since we don't have a key passive to scale a stat with, Dexterity is nice to put in places where you can.
- Critical Strike Chance: Try to scale this as high as you can for high output.
- Defensive Legendaries: Umbrous Aspect is excellent as it gives you free Dark Shroud shadows just for attacking. The best defense however is not to get hit.
- Stack Defense stats on Chest and Pants: These 2 gear slots provide the most protection for your character, stats that are difficult to get elsewhere. If you feel squishy, it is probably because you're lacking defensive stats on these slots.
- Movement Speed: One of the most important stats you can get for defense. The faster you are, the easier it is to dodge and not get hit. Stack as much of this as you can with Haste, Subverting Dark Shroud, and movement speed stats on boots.
Our Damage Explained article explains how to scale your Offense.
Learn all you need to know to scale Defense with our Defense Explained Article.
Stat Priorities & Gear Options
To enable your build to perform optimally, you need to reach certain Stat "Breakpoints". Some examples are reaching 100% to Critically Strike, or 20 Resource per second. Since there are many values of these stats on different pieces of gear, read the checklist below and refer to the recommended Tempered Affixes and Masterwork Crits ↑. Desirable Greater Affixes will always be the top three recommended Affixes.
Recommended Stat Thresholds
- 6+ total Poison Imbuement Count
- 15+ total Flurry Ranks
- 12+ total Dark Shroud Ranks
- 1000+ Dexterity
- 180%+ Movement Speed
- Armor Capped 9,230
- Resistance Capped 70%
- 30,000+ Life
- 30%+ Dodge Chance
- 15%+ Chance to Freeze
- Helm: Cowl of the Nameless
- We go Crown of Lucion on the Mythic Unique version.
- Crowd Control Duration
- Ranks to Rapid Gambit
- Ranks to Unstable Elixirs ↑
- Ranks to Trick Attacks ↑
- Chest Armor: Shroud of Khanduras
- Dark Shroud Ranks ↑
- Movement Speed After Evade
- Non-Physical Damage
- Shadow Resistance
- Gloves: Frostbitten
- Ranks to Flurry ↑
- Dexterity
- Attack Speed
- Critical Strike Chance
- ⚒️ Damage Per Dark Shroud
- ⚒️ Smoke Grenade Cooldown
- Pants: Umbrous
- Dexterity ↑
- Cold Resistance (maximum health on Mythic Unique version)
- Armor
- Dodge
- ⚒️ Flurry Size ↑
- ⚒️ Second Wind
- Boots: Concussive Strikes
- Movement Speed
- Energy Per Second ↑
- Armor (Dexterity in Mythic Unique Variant)
- Maximum Life
- ⚒️ Movement Speed
- ⚒️ Freeze
- Amulet: Encircling Blades
- 1. Ranks to Frigid Finesse ↑
- 2. Ranks to Unstable Elixirs
- 3. Ranks to Malice
- 4. Ranks to Frigid Finesse
- 5. % Dexterity
- 6. Ranks to Exploit
- 7. Ranks to Weapon Mastery
- 8. Cooldown Reduction
- ⚒️ Damage Per Dark Shroud
- ⚒️ +3 Innervation
- Rings: Starlight & Stolen Vigor
- Wear Starless in place of Starlight ring
- Maximum Life
- Dexterity
- Attack Speed ↑
- Critical Strike Chance
- ⚒️ Damage Per Dark Shroud
- ⚒️ +3 Innervation
- Bow: Breakneck Bandit's
- Dexterity ↑
- Maximum Life
- 5% Chance to Gain Primary Energy
- Vulnerable Damage
- ⚒️ Caltrops Size
- ⚒️ Damage to Per Dark Shroud
- Main Hand: Asheara's Khanjar
- Lucky Hit Chance
- Maximum Life
- Critical Strike Chance
- Ranks to Weapon Mastery ↑
- Off-Hand: Conceited
- Vulnerable Damage
- Dexterity ↑
- Maximum Life
- Critical Strike Damage
⚒️ Caltrops Duration
⚒️ Damage to Per Dark Shroud
Fill your item's sockets with the following:
- Royal Emerald into Weapons for extra damage.
- Royal Ruby into Armor for more survivability.
- Royal Emerald/Royal Topaz/Royal Ruby or Royal Skull in rings depending on what you need capped/variation you are playing.
FAQ & Mechanics
Once a guide is released, many players have questions on why and how we are approaching certain choices. In this section you can find the answers to the questions that have been asked the most.
Why aren't we building Flurry around Grenades with the new unique ring?
How are Dark Shroud stacks generated in this build?
Mechanics
Dark Shroud Scaling
Attack Speed Caps
Video Guide
Summary
The Flurry Rogue is a great farming build to get started in a season and has lots of fun mechanics. You are fast, destroy most monster packs with ease and can do all endgame content reasonably well. With some adjustments, it can be very tanky to push into higher Nightmare Dungeons as well. Good luck!
- Make sure you grab as many energy related items/aspects as possible
- Hit as many enemies as possible with Flurry + Encircling Blades.
- Use Evade and Dash to reposition in combat.
- Use Rain of Arrows as often as you can to keep up multiple buffs and keep the enemies down.
Credits
Written by DiEoxidE
Reviewed by Wudijo